Of all the things I've heard from McCain, this is the one that ticks me off the most.
SURRENDER? We Democrats want to SURRENDER? So, after being called defeatocrats and traitors, now we want to surrender?
You senile SOB, we ALREADY surrendered a long time ago!
We have surrendered our standing in the world, we have surrendered our democratic ideals, we have surrendered our allies, we have surrendered our military strength, we have surrendered our economic standing, and we have surrendered human and civil rights, all on the shoulders of this war conceived by a bunch of addlebrained simpletons who couldn't see past their copies of the PNAC manifesto.
I'll educate some more after the jump...
We've done all that, and Iraq is still a cesspool of violence, a place where they can't pass simple laws, a place where their international sports teams were just disbanded by the central government, a place where the worst ethnic cleansing we've seen since mid-1990s Yugoslavia has taken place (save for Darfur, perhaps), a place where our soldiers die every day for no good reason, a place where they refuse to take responsibility for governing themselves, a place that we've converted from functioning society to barely disguised anarchy.
Tell me, Senator McSame, what in God's name can you educate Sen. Obama about???
He was right when you were wrong, every single damn time. He sees the damage this is doing to us and our nation. He sees the useless loss of life there. He sees, as I've seen with my own eyes, that soldiers returning don't want to talk much about things there, and hold a deep sense of frustration over a mission they see isn't going ANYWHERE. He understands that security and democracy aren't just won at the barrel of a gun. In short, it is YOU, Sen. McSame, that needs an education.
The biggest thing that you and your party of drones doesn't understand is that security is about far more than how many people you kill and how many guns you own. Security comes about in many ways. For instance, our economy. When a nation is strong economically, it makes life easier for its citizens and allows the nation to more easily budget for the things it needs. When a nation is diverse economically, it doesn't have to buy so many of its things from overseas, but it can sell more, which brings in more money. Exporting is ALWAYS more profitable than importing, a lesson forgotten by your corporate benefactors.
Secondly, security comes from a shared feeling that we are in it together. By you and your party's treasonous division of this nation in its politics, you have damaged our security by pitting neighbor against neighbor, family against family. The bright idea you had over there was a permanant 51% majority. Smooth move. We are less secure now, because you have turned away millions from military careers with your reckless use of the military, and so people don't want to join so you can send them to die in a war that they don't want to fight because they know it's doing NOTHING to make us secure.
Thirdly, security comes from having allies who'll watch your back for you in a war. Again, your party drove away the allies. After 9/11, almost ALL of the world had our back, knowing that what happened to us could happen to any of them, and they didn't want to suffer the way we'd just suffered. Terrorism had clearly stepped up its goals and its means to acheive them. So, what did your brilliant neocon friends do? That's right, they pissed off the world. Today, almost no one has our back, because they watched what you and your friends did in Iraq, and thought, "God, they could try to do that to us."
So, instead of the nations of the world banding against terrorism, many of them are banding against us, because now they feel that WE, the United States of America, the beacon of democracy, are a bigger threat to them. What sort of world have you and your party wrought, Senator McSame? Is this what your forefathers fought for? Your father and your grandfather fought in wars AGAINST the very sort of thing we are doing today in Iraq. What the hell is wrong with you? Where along your path to the nomination did you completely lose your mind, your principles, your sense of what is right about America?
Finally, yes, security comes from military strength, but we have ruined that, too, in Iraq. It will take YEARS for our military to recover from the damage inflicted upon it by your stupid war of conquest that has conquered NOTHING. It will take years to rebuild our numbers, our equipment, our training and standards, and those aren't my words, those are the words of the military chiefs, who have testified to this effect over and over again. After leaving Vietnam in 1975, it took us eight years to rebuild the military, after a few years in between in which our military wasn't sure if it could've stopped a Soviet attack. What happens if a major power attacks us in the interregnum? Our soldiers and equipment are stuck in Iraq, unable to carry our their primary mission, their most IMPORTANT mission, defending AMERICA, not your stupid, useless, blind, deaf and dumb ideology.
You have a lot of nerve, Senator McSame, to tell America we want to surrender to terrorists, to tell Barack Obama that you'll "educate" him. How dare you, John? How freaking DARE you? You can't even support a new GI Bill, because it doesn't force these soldiers, most of whom have served more tours than the max allowed in Vietnam, to STAY LONGER? You simpering jackass. You are not FIT to be President of THESE United States.
Senator John McSame, you have nothing to teach and a hell of a lot to learn, so sit down, shut it, and listen to some people who have a grip on reality. Good day to you.